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Sounds to Me like the boka is flooding at full power. Causing the liquid to bubble out the top vent. I also see two problems here.

What kinda breaker you running on that element set up?
My poor math shows those elements at 110 volts would be some where around 21 amps each. With the heat up time you are taking about I suspect only one of those elements is running to its capacity available at 110 volts, if that .

^^^^^ that is exactly IT ^^^^^^

How about a fish tank heater and a water bath around the ferment vessel, works for ME/

Welcome aboard and yes you will find all you need here/

More watts for heat up, turn it back for spirit run. My 2" boka will flood at 1350 watts after a bit, runs nicely at 1100 for hours. 95% take off for the entire spirit run.
toward the end of the run I go back up to 1350 ish and finish off the run.

That is one that caught my eye, dumping mash spoils all over out in the open. Even a novice passer by might question that mess. Smelling of lowwines and ferment

LOL

Do what your dad wanted, And the tattoo idea is bad a$$. My Father died and the step sister took the ashes and I have no idea where the remains are at this point.

Well yes sort of, A personal achievement if you will, I have had runs with much less abv that ended satisfactory as well. This run went well from beginning to end. Output speed was good meaning I didn't squeeze it down to a drip a minute lol . I have wanted to see if the column I built would actuall...

Finally after much trial and error achieved 95% for a spirit run neutral, 2" boka packed with rachin rings and copper mesh.
Has run 94% before but this tops that.

I make wine also, with EC 1118 and the like, but wouldn't make a wine with turbo

Gawd dang that is a ton of sugar,fermenting and stilling. You really drink that much?

The turbos I have used all give good results as long as I don't try and get greedy and push above 12% abv -and 72ish degrees wash . Get greedy and go above that and My result is not so good.

What was the SG and FG?
Is it a dry wine now or sweet

Sounds a little cool,
Just relax it will go.
1118 is strong

On the third fill
First fill about 6months
Second about 9 months
Third and I think final shooting for 12

Sorry fella,
1.90 is almost twice 1.100
Is it 1.090?

Yes and they put some Fancy art work on it to.
I sent them a zip file of what I wanted and they burnt it on the barrel face. I have filled out three times and it leaves a nice spice note with vanilla tones to the drink.
Highly recommended company.

Sounds like a plan. I don't have any fores yet, but I precleaned my pot still copper pipes by drawing a rag soaked in denatured alcohol through as many of the parts as possible. Tied two pieces of twine to the rag so I could pull it through from both directions multiple times. This was done after s...

Don't get snippy jack,
I you really read and take the time to comprehend what you said you read you wouldn't ask such a simple question.

Man don't put no beer in your still ,unless you like hop flavored whiskey And trust what these guys tell you.Read the threads till you ."know" what the hell is going on . You dont need a thermometer on that pot. As Sure you can have one but it has absolutely no outcome on how fast or how l...

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Read this

I have a set up very similar. Use a 30 gallon res.
My fan sucks better than pushing air thru the rad

I think ( but don't know for sure) that the law will help the self employed by allowing them to buy into an insurance exchange - kind of like a group insurance plan - at a lower premium than what an individual policy now costs. It is a big, complicated law and many of the provisions don't take effe...

It's not going to have much effect directly on Me I'm self employed.
but I can see it might effect a couple of My employees,"loss of emploment"

^^ can you post pics???

Church bake sale. told a lady clerk that once. She said she loves bake sales"where is this sale?"
Told her I wasn't sure
Now I use the homemade beer,wine thing.

enough to float a battleship.

Nat-X wrote: 8 oz of foreshots ( that I use in my colonics regimen),

WTF!! please expand on that thought?

Neat thing is when I filled with water to swell and rinse, that water, later smelled like some thing beautiful
had aged for 10 years ,hard to put in to words but trust Me it was really really nice.
I can hardly wait till this stuff comes to it's own.
Repeat customer for sure!